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Go with the EVGA 500B instead. Slightly higher quality, better warranty service and has 2x 6+2 PCIe connectors

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Plugged PC into faulty socket, psu died and smelled bad so I need a new one.

 

My old one was a super flower 450w and im looking to buy a corsair cx500. I have some questions though

 

My GPU needs 2 6pin PCI connectors to power it, which this PSU has however, I if I want to upgrade to a gtx970 in the future which has 2 8pin connectors, can I use this power supply with adapters?

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How could you kill it from plugging it into a faulty socket?

Take a look at the evga 500b too. And use pcpartpicker for research about the connectors it has

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Go with the EVGA 500B instead. Slightly higher quality, better warranty service and has 2x 6+2 PCIe connectors

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Looks like one if the protection mechanisms deployed. Superflower is actually pretty ggod, didn't expect that.

What 970 has 2 8 pins? Thats stupid. Normally they have q 8 pin and 1 six pin or smaller.

Anyways. CX500M is good.

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I personally have the CX750m, is really nice. No problems. I would suggest any of the "CX___M" PSU's, my only problem is that it is daisychained SATA power so I had to buy some extenders because I could not get it to all my drives. 

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Should probably tackle the bad sockets in your house first lol.

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Looks like one if the protection mechanisms deployed. Superflower is actually pretty ggod, didn't expect that.

What 970 has 2 8 pins? Thats stupid. Normally they have q 8 pin and 1 six pin or smaller.

Anyways. CX500M is good.

Some have two eight pins to provide more power for overclocking. Superflower makes respectable power supply units.

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Yeah the socket was sparking sometimes when I plugged in the extension cable for my PSU. I mean I figure thats what it was. Some sort of power surge or something.

I took the whole pc apart, mobo, gpu, ram, heatsink and all and there was no sign of any damage on those. The PSU did smell of smoke 

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Yeah the socket was sparking sometimes when I plugged in the extension cable for my PSU. I mean I figure thats what it was. Some sort of power surge or something.

I took the whole pc apart, mobo, gpu, ram, heatsink and all and there was no sign of any damage on those. The PSU did smell of smoke 

What kind of sparking? Electrical outlets can spark when you plug something into them.

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Blue sparks aboout 1cm long outside the socket. On some occasions. I dont know why I was so stupid to continually pug my system into that outlet T_T 

Feel its worth mentioning before this there were no problems running it from an outlet in another room for about 8 months

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Blue sparks aboout 1cm long outside the socket. On some occasions. I dont know why I was so stupid to continually pug my system into that outlet T_T 

Feel its worth mentioning before this there were no problems running it from an outlet in another room for about 8 months

Well that was probably the reason why it died. I had the same and i killed also my previous psu exacly the same way. So tip for everyone, if it sparks blue, don't use it! :)

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Evga Ordered :D 

Thanks LTT forum people :D

You should have gone for another Superflower.

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Some have two eight pins to provide more power for overclocking. Superflower makes respectable power supply units.

I think you meant Excellent ? Superflower are up there with the likes of Seasonic.

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You should have gone for another Superflower.

Budgets too tight

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